Sentences with phrase «career skills program»

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Programs that provide skills development, mentoring and clear pathways to success from cradle to college and career, can generate benefits that are more than three times their costs, exceeding the rates of return seen in many private sector business investments.

Adding to the rankings were how well programs equipped their students with skills recruiters seek and student feedback on the school's academics, career services and more.

This September, she entered the MBA program at Desautels, where she plans to focus on finance in the hopes of finding a career that combines her creative and analytical skills, such as management consulting.

With these kind of numbers in mind, it's clear that adding some coding know - how to your toolkit is a wise investment in your career future, whether or not you're specifically interested in developer roles — since having programming skills means you can work in virtually any field.

She realized she needed to help people monetize the things they love by creating «a one - year online education program that focuses on learning the specific skills you need through classes, mentors and experience, to create the career and lifestyle you want.»

It provides a 10 - week training and mentoring program for those who have taken a career break of more than two years, equipping employees with skills to reenter the workplace.

Given my career and having an active family, it was important to me to be able to wrap up my studies as quickly as I could and get busy using the skills that I've learned in the program.

Skillcrush is an interactive learning platform that gives students the digital skills they need in areas like web design and programming to make a major positive career change.

2015.05.13 RBC now accepting applications for its Olympians program Opportunity for elite athletes to share experiences, develop career skills and receive financial support...

Graduates of this new hybrid program will be equipped with a broad skill set to support their success in a wide range of careers.»

Ashton College's International Trade diploma and certificate programs endow students with the skills, knowledge and preparation necessary to succeed in this career.

If you desire pursuing a career in Finance, Marketing, Investments or Insurance Operations, the Early Career Rotational and Internship Programs give you the opportunity to build business acumen, critical thinking and leadership skill sets to become a future leader within the company.

«This certification means that the student has the skills and knowledge needed to begin a career without additional testing,» said Martina Hilldorfer, culinary arts program co-coordinator and chair of the accreditation process.

Our certification program, competitions and awards will prove your skills as a professional culinarian and enhance your career opportunities.

Taking place November 5 — 8, 2015, the non-for-profit festival will raise funds for The Department of Youth Affairs and the Lit» l Chefs mentor program, which supports and encourages young local chefs to develop skills that will assist them in pursuing careers in hospitality, a vital industry of Turks and Caicos.

Our programs focus on three main areas: skill development through soccer training and competitive play, leadership training through our junior coaches and career mentoring programs, and character building through our community service initiatives both home and abroad.

Benefiting from discovery and play in our Early Childhood program, skill - building in our Lower School, and rigorous intellectual challenges in the High School, Green Meadow students go on to top colleges, fulfilling careers, and are known for their resilience and creativity.

Further, it requires local districts to provide alternative programs and services to pregnant or parenting students, including counseling, life skills and parenting education, childcare, transportation, career development, and health and nutrition services.

The high school program prepares students for 2 - or 4 - year college completion and careers by ensuring they are college - ready, which includes preparing them with 21st Century Skills (communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and technology skSkills (communication, collaboration, creativity, critical thinking, and technology skillsskills).

In order to meet New Legacy Charter School's mission of empowering teen parents with the skills needed to raise healthy children and graduate prepared for success in college and careers, developing a Coordinated School Health Program is a necessity.

Wellstone will provide a home for NOI's broad community of practitioners and power key elements of NOI's core programs, such as intensive, cohort - based skills training for emerging digital organizers and data managers looking to start careers in the field (known as Data and Digital BootCamps); shorter - form skills trainings that have been effective in helping established practitioners take their work to the next level; and events like RootsCamp, an «unconference» that provides key networking, best - practice sharing, and skills development for the progressive data and digital communities.

«There are so many internship programs and jobs available to youth over the summer, and this resource fair will not only help people find a job, but can give our community members the skills they need to begin a long and fruitful career,» he said.

Students in this program are equipped with similar business and professional skills that will help them thrive throughout their careers.

The demand for coding skills is skyrocketing, and not just for developers; programming is playing a bigger role in every career path, It is for this...

To reverse this trend, this year Hoosick Falls Central School (HFCS) is piloting its College Completion Project, a program that introduces students to career options and helps them develop the skills and the knowledge necessary to successfully complete post - secondary studies and attain a degree or professional certification.

As training money from the federal stimulus package opens new possibilities for Mohawk Valley workers looking for the skills that will be in demand when the economy recovers, Mohawk Valley Community College is offering area residents an opportunity to learn about exciting programs that can be the first step in a new career.

The program pre-pays 95 percent of tuition for courses in high - demand, high - wage fields, regardless of whether the skills are relevant to a future career at Amazon.

To address the critical shortfall of skilled young and beginning farmers and ranchers, the Young Farmer Success Act would provide incentives to those perusing careers in agriculture by adding farmers to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, which currently includes professions such as government service, teaching and nursing.

- See more at: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2014/09/023.html#sthash.zHw6tEoF.dpuf «Under the leadership of Dr. Koury, this program will provide hundreds of high school students with the skills they need to pursue a career in life sciences on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, where the UB medical school will be located in just a few years,» Cain said.

«Under the leadership of Dr. Koury, this program will provide hundreds of high school students with the skills they need to pursue a career in life sciences on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, where the UB medical school will be located in just a few years,» Cain said.

However, there are real signs that business is investing in the Bronx and with our new H.I.R.E. program, we are investing in the Bronx worker.Bronxites looking to take the next step in their career can enroll in our program and receive hands on, targeted assistance with everything from resume writing to skill certification.

Her career comes full circle on Monday when she becomes director of AAAS» Science & Technology Policy Fellowships Program, which, since 1973, has helped some 3,300 scientists and engineers ply their scientific knowledge and related skills in the policy arena, solving problems big and small facing leaders in Congress, executive agencies and judicial offices.

After completing the self - assessment stage, including evaluating relevant interests and skills, the program moves on to career exploration, during which job seekers identify occupations that align with the particular combination of interests, skills, and values that the self - assessment has revealed.

The program aims to build leadership skills, encourage political civic engagement, and foster a strong interest in public service careers.

Professional societies such as the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) and AAS are concerned about the situation and have been engaged in continuing discussions in recent years about how to improve current postgraduate training programs in order to prepare students not only for research careers, but to give them a broad skill set that would enable them to pursue more diverse career paths.

Patrick Brandt, director of career development and training at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill and another working group participant, says he uses the jobs his program's alumni are in to determine which careers his office's skill development programming should focus on.

Certainly, the days in which a bench biologist with basic scripting skills could land a programming job in industry are probably gone, but I think opportunities still abound for biologists seeking an academic research career.

The new T32 announcement, which supersedes the former version last revised in 2002, states that, along with training in research techniques, «programs should provide all NRSA trainees with additional professional development skills and career guidance.»

While pursuing her project on how environmental contaminants and oxidative stress cause lung cancer, Gelhaus complemented her postdoctoral training by spending some time with other PIs at Penn. «She has worked hard to develop skills that are independent of those available in my own laboratory while working on a project that is central to my research program,» Blair writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

Already, «MRC has used the outputs of the report to develop the MRC Skill Priorities which apply across all existing support mechanisms, with further discussions on improving support for skill priority areas underway,» write Joanna Robinson, a program manager at MRC, and Clare Bhunnoo, strategy and policy manager at BBSRC, jointly, in an e-mail to Science CarSkill Priorities which apply across all existing support mechanisms, with further discussions on improving support for skill priority areas underway,» write Joanna Robinson, a program manager at MRC, and Clare Bhunnoo, strategy and policy manager at BBSRC, jointly, in an e-mail to Science Carskill priority areas underway,» write Joanna Robinson, a program manager at MRC, and Clare Bhunnoo, strategy and policy manager at BBSRC, jointly, in an e-mail to Science Careers.

Despite the program's name, the point isn't so much to recruit researchers who are decidedly early in their career; rather, it's more a way of expanding NIH's universe of reviewers and skilled applicants.

Bench skills are just one component of a successful science career, yet they've long been the focus of graduate and postdoctoral training programs.

Now in its second year, this unique program teaches graduate students a variety of professional skills — ranging from preparing an effective conference talk to budgeting an independent consulting business — that will help them in any career they choose, either inside or outside the Ivory Tower.

To help the roughly 40 % of postdocs who don't wind up working in industry find jobs after their postdocs, Pond says, NIBR is ramping up career development over the next year, implementing programs and workshops to instill «soft skills» including scientific presentation, scientific writing, and grant writing.

Fewer than half (375, or 44 %) of respondents representing 134 institutions (59 % of the total) reported having existing formal programs for graduate students to develop skills for non-academic careers.»

Under the direction of Dalhousie's vice president, student services, the program initially offered two career - related credit courses and a skills transcript program, providing students with documented evidence of employability skills gained through coursework.

Mary Anne Timmins and Trevor Penning discussed the office's success skills and career development programs.

[The program] gives you an amazing network and helps [to] strengthen your technical and career skills.»

In the structured Ph.D. program, career - oriented skills training unrelated to the research project, combined with serious attention to planning for the student's career, should strengthen the focus on the student's prospects and progress.

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